Just yesterday, an announcement was published that has created some waves in the the fleet management industry: Geotab Acquires Verizon Connect’s International Commercial Operations. This is the first major acquisition from the market leader in Fleet Management – and at the same time a realization from Verizon that Fleet Management is difficult to master, especially […]
It has now been 3 months for me working as a freelancer. Not a lot of time for an experienced solopreneur – but felt like a roller coaster for me 😉. One reason for me to leave the corporate world was to stretch myself, to learn, to leave my comfort zone – and yes, I
There are a lot of reasons why a commercial fleet owner should collect data from their vehicle fleet. Making the fleet more efficient, safer, more secure, producing less CO2, lowering maintenance costs – all of those are well-known in the industry for decades – and every fleet management provider will be happy to tell you
I have written about AI Agents in the fleet management space before, and now I’ve built one myself. In just a few hours with n8n and modern LLMs, I created a functional agent that can query fleet data, make (reasonably 😉) intelligent decisions, and even direct my demo-fleet via text-messages. This post shares what it
I have seen countless “roadmaps” in my career that were not much more than glorified wishlists. Pretty documents filled with ambitious ideas, but lacking the fundamental ingredients that transform hope into execution. After years of watching teams struggle with this distinction, I have come to realize there are three critical differences that separate real roadmaps
When I hear or overhear people’s conversations on being agile, sometimes the Agile Manifesto comes up. It contains the line cited above. I am amazed how often this quote is understood as “being agile means we don’t need to plan”. Up to the point where people use “we will do this project in agile mode”
Every tech organization faces challenges as it grows. What starts as a speedy team delivering features quickly can gradually transform into something that feels slow, opaque, and frustrating. This is normal to a certain extent – and also not dangerous when it is recognized and tackled by the responsible tech-leaders in a timely manner. The
I have been thinking about potential use-cases for agentic AI in fleet management a lot over the last few months. And want to share some thoughts around this here, as I think the traditional world of fleet management is in for a big change. Defining the Space of Agentic AI But first, let’s start with
You have to be a special kind of person to enjoy reading or writing Technology Due Diligences in the context of Mergers and Acquisitions. I find many of them to be rather generic, always pondering about the same set of standard issues. They are summarized, put away in a folder and never touched again. Their
It has been a while since this blog has been active. Almost 9 years to be precise. Things are changing. My work has changed and I am no longer working for a big cooperation. And the world around us is changing – with potentially the biggest impact coming from Artificial Intelligence and the possibilities it